The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . ately afterwards the tussle preliminary rising on two legs at thestated angle is no mere chance movement. Ithas a deep significance. In fig. 4, M represents the medium and T thetable tilted as explained. Does it not seempossible, nay, almost probable, that the reasonfor the initial tilt is to allow some projectionfrom the medium to get the best grip possible SOME MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS 73 on the under sur-face of the table, asindicated in the dia-gram? The objectof the tilting wouldthus be to put theunder surface oftab
The reality of psychic phenomena : raps, levitations, etc. . ately afterwards the tussle preliminary rising on two legs at thestated angle is no mere chance movement. Ithas a deep significance. In fig. 4, M represents the medium and T thetable tilted as explained. Does it not seempossible, nay, almost probable, that the reasonfor the initial tilt is to allow some projectionfrom the medium to get the best grip possible SOME MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS 73 on the under sur-face of the table, asindicated in the dia-gram? The objectof the tilting wouldthus be to put theunder surface oftable at the inclina-tion most suitablefor this projection toobtain the shortestand most powerfulgrip. The experi-menter may standanywhere round thetable except directlybefore the medium,and not interfere toany extent with theintensity of thephenomena; but hemay not stand be-tween medium andtable. I do not wishto say anything moredefinite than theabove at this point,but I would, even atthis stage, draw the ^readers attention tothe importance ofthe 74 REALITY OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA Experiment 27: Adjustment of levitating forceto suit an unsymmetrical loading of table. This experiment was not arranged by me, butwas given spontaneously by the operators. Ihad brought a wooden box about 3 in. x 3 in. and9 in. high, containing an electric bell and drybattery, which 1 intended to use for anotherexperiment. The weight of the box, which Iplaced on the table near the edge, was 3*8 levitation of the table unexpectedlybegan. Now, it is obvious that as the tableweighed lOf lb., and the box 3*8 lb., the centre ofgravity of the two was some distance from thecentre of the table. The operators, however,managed to keep the surface of the table nearlylevel, and they accomplished this by strong up-ward jerks if one of the edges sagged. Theydid not seem able to gauge the position of thecombined centre of gravity with any accuracy,and so uncongenial did the uneven distributionof
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